The New York Herald Newspaper, November 19, 1871, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. 4AMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXVI Ne, 323 AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tus BALLET Pan- Tomime or Humpty Dumpty. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street—ITaLian Opza— Faust. ST. JAMES THEATRE, Twenty-eighth street and Broad- way.—Tux Per OF THE PUBLIO--Baccuus. WALLACK'S THEATRE. Broadway and 18th street.— ROSEDALE. ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 30th st.—Perform- ances afternoon and evening—THE Bor Detsotivs. BOOTH’S THEATRE, 284 st, porwte: Stu and - ‘Tux VICTIMS—SOLON SHINGLE. tg scucaitaad BOWERY THEAT' Bor 1 - 8 = a wery.—THE PHENOMENON: NIBLO'S GARDEN, ‘Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets.—OUR AMERICAN COUMIN. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th av. anc 23d st—— ‘Tux TickET or Leave Man. LINA EDWIN's THEATRE, No. 726 Broacway.—OPERA ‘Bourrz—La Guanve Ducniser, FIFTA AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth strect.— ‘Tux NEw Drama or Divoncr. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATSE.— Epwim Bootu as HaMurt. 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New York, Sunday, November 19, 1871. = CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. ‘PaGg. 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements. 3—Reform in Brooklyn: The Manner in Which It 1s To Be Attained; Inspectors Before the Grand Jury—Municipal Manipulations: What 4s Being Done with the Public Oflices; Meetng of the Board of Canvassers Yesterday—Ring Banks Bursting: Tammany Bantlings Dying jor Lack of Municipal Pap—The Viaduct Rail. way—-How the People of Newark and Jersey City are Legaily Robbed—Madison Avenue Vark—Funds for the Fire Victinis—Killed and Nearly Cut in Two, 4—Religious Intelligence—The Courts—The Cholera Abating—Tragedy on Union Hill, N. J.—Daring Diamond Kobbery. 5—The Tichborne ‘rial; The Clatmant’s Story of His Karly Juife and Subsequent Adventures; luis Travels in South America, Perils at Sea and Career in Australia—Financial and Com- Mercia) Report—Marriages and Deaths. 6—Editoriais: Leading Article, “The Prince Has Come—Our Welcome Guest—Russia and the United States—Their Fnendly Relations and Their Great Future’’—Amusement Announce- ments, 7—Edditorials (Continued from Sixth Page)—Ar- rival of Prince Alexis—European and Cuban Cable Tel S—A Wife Roasted Alive— Gotham’s beauties—Pergonal Intelligence— Labor Reform—Business Notices. 8—Fieetwood Park—A Stngular Case of Hydropho- bla—Advertisements. 9—Advertisements, 20—The Fisk Libel Case—rhe Latest Grand Bond Robbery—Collision and Murder on the Hud- son River—Cotton Crop Prospects—Heffer- man’s Hebe—Shipping Intelligence—Adver- tusemenis. “4 1—Advertisements. 12— Advertisements, Aut Gorxe.—Mr. Richard Tweed retires from the Metropolitan Hotel on the Ist of De- scember. Tuat THE National, Repvbiican CoNvEN- ‘ron will be held in St. Lonis is regarded there as a certainty. What will the Hubites say to this? Toe Week IN WALL Street wound up very quietly. Gold left off at 111 and the money market very easy. Government bonds have advanced to a small premium on par in gold. Gore THE WHOLE Ficurr.—The Washing- ton Patriot, a democratic organ, said to be founded by the Tammany Ring for its presi- dential purposes, comes out for Senator Sum- mer as the man for the democracy against General Grant in 1872. Shades of Butler and Brooks of South Carolina, has it come to this! Rey. Fatner Heoxer will lecture at St. Btephen’s church this evening, in aid of the Association for Befriending Children. The Bubject is, “‘Who Shall Take Care of the Poor— the Church or the State?” Father Hecker’s great ability and popularity as a lecturer, and the worthy object for which he lectures—to provide for homeless and friendless girls during the coming winter—should enlist the attention of all and attract a large audience to St. Stephen's church. Genera Hooker on Generat McCue Lan,—At the late reunion of the Army of the Cumberland at Detroit, General Hooker made ® speech, in which, after highly eulogizing General Thomas as a general who was always ‘at the front and always successful, he went on tosay that “‘with General McClellan it was different. You might have fastened a locomo- tive to him and you could not have drawn him to the front.” Now what has General - McClellan to say? A Horrmie Tracepy at Lyxn, Mass.— According to a special despatch to the Heratp a man by the name of John G. Clinton was heard by some neighbors to be ill-treating his wife, these people being at- tracted to the cottage by the screams of a ‘woman. Subsequently the house was observed to be on fire, and three men who were living in the neighborbood broke into the house and found the corpse of Mrs. Clinton horribly charred and emaciated, the flesh falling from the arms and legs of the body as it was being conveyed to the police station, A little boy, one of the family, returning from an evening school, discovered the bouse was on fire and immediately rnshed up stairs to rescue a younger brother, when be was encountered by his father, to whom he stated the fact and sbowed him the dead body of his mother, The man is believed to have thrown a kero- sene lamp at his wife, the oil saturating ber clothing, and after badly beating her set her on fire. Tue Missouri Jepudlican still adheres to the “passive” proposition in regard to the nomination of a democratic candidate for the Presidency. It avers that “‘tbe constitution which the party is henceforth to defend and conserve is not the constitution of 1860, but the constitution of 1670.” It would be well for the party if some of the extreme Southern democrats came to « similar conclusion, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 187L—TRIPLE SHEET. —$$ The Proposed Viaduct Railway im New| soon as they see » prospect of its | ee Prince Has Come—Our Welcome Guest—Rassia and the United States— Their Friendly Relations and Their Great Future. ‘The news frae Moldart cam’ yestre’en, ‘Wiil soon gar mony ferlie; ‘The ships o’ war hae just come in, And landed royal Chariie. The Prince has come. The Russian squad- ron which brings him to our shores is at Sandy Hook. On the land and the water everything is in readiness for his reception, with a right royal parade and a cordial wel- come, and “‘on the tip-toe of expectation” the city awaits his appearance. The spectacle to-morrow, from the Hook to the Battery, of the grand aquatic procession of ships-of-war, pleasure steamers, yachts, pilot boats and steam and sailing craft of all descriptions, will be beautiful and imposing, and in the march up Broadway of our National Guard wo ex- pect an unusually fine display of the handsome holiday soldiers of our peace establishment, The city is absorbed in the new sensation. The Chicago fire has passed into history ; our late election excitements have died out ; we have become familiar with the operatic cho- ruses of Nilsson; Tweed and the frauds of the Ring have become an old story, and we are ready for the nuptials of the Russian Bear and the American Eagle. The young Prince comes as a traveller to our shores to see something of our country, its government, its people and its institations ; but he comes, also, as a special ambassador of peace and good will from his ‘august master,” the Emperor of all the Russias, to the President and the sovereign people of the United States ; and in this capacity, through the length and breadth of the land, he will meet with a hearty welcome. His visit may be called a pleasure excursion, and yet asa familiar diplomatic mission it may form an important landmark in the history of the future relations between the two countries. From the very organization of our general government down to this day, the “happy accord” which has existed, and which prom- ises long to be cherished between Russia and the United States, is most remarkable and extraordinary. It is most remarkable in this, that the absolute despotism of Russia, of all | the governments of the earth, is, perhaps, the farthest removed from our system resting on the sovereigaty of the people. Our supreme law is a written constitution and the will of the people. The supreme law of Russia is the will of the Emperor. And yet through the whole period of our national existence the relations maintained without interruption be- tween Russia and the United States have fallen but little short of an established defen- sive and offensive alliance, This is surely a most remarkable and excep- tional case of international harmony. And yet it is open to the simplest explanation. There have been and there are no clashing interests or designs between Russia and the United States. Non-intervention as the rule on our part in European affairs, and our Monroe doctrine of European non-intervention in American affairs, have been and are exactly adapted to the position, the conditions and the designs of Russia. Her ambition is confined to the Old World; ours is limited to the New. We have nothing to do with her peculiar local institutions, and she is so remote and isolated that she fears no danger from ours, More- over, the reigning Czar, one of the most liberal and enlightened statesmen of the age, is fast putting Russia upon the high road of modern progress and the general happi- uess of his people, and here he has our warmest sympathies. But again, upon the common domain of the high seas, looking to the dangers from European complications of a war with England and France, or either of them, Russia has never forgotten the impor- tance of the United States as a friendly Power. In this view of her amicable dispositions to- wards us they have grown with our growth and strengthened with our -strength, and doubtless in view of the possibilities and ad- vantages of a naval alliance at some future day onsome question of neutral or belligerent rights. In the war of the Crimea the sympathies of the United States rather inclined towards Rus- sia than towards England and France, not- withstanding ‘the Czar’s designs upon the estates of ‘the sick man” of Turkey. In the war of our Southern rebellion England be- came, as far as her quibbling pre- tences of neutrality would permit, an ally of Jeff Davis, as did also Louis Napoleon, in his flank movement against us in Mexico. Our popular institutions were obnoxious and full of danger to the English aristocracy and the French empire; and both England and France hoped from the dissolution of the American Union an enduring foothold upon this Continent and a strong American balance of power. Russia, having no such balance of power to consider, was free to give us, and freely gave us, through all the great struggle for our national existence, her sympathies and her moral support. Hence, when this struggle was over, she found our government so grate- fully inclined that it regarded the offer of the five hundred thousand square miles of Alaska and the islands appended, for seven millions two hundred thousand dollars in gold, as a bargain; not because those vast domains of ice and snow are worth anything, but because our friend, the Czar, just then, needed a little ready cash, and we were happy to accommo- date him. This cession and this purchase were simply a treaty cementing the previously existing amicable relations between the two countries ; but there was another thing which has drawn to the Emperor Alexander the special admira- tion of the American people. We refer to the emancipation of the twenty-three millions of serfs of his empire, and his thoughtful pro- visions for their welfare in their transformation from the helplessness of slavery to the responsi- bilities of freedom. How far this great ex- ample of the Czar of 1861 influenced the mind of Abraham Lincoln to his warning of 1862, and his emancipation proclamation of January, 1863, we do not know; but we cannot doubt that that great example at St. Petersburg served as an inspiration at Washington. Ua- questionably the concurrent acts of the eman- cipation of the Russian serfs and the abolition of American slavery have operated to bind the two countries sill more closely together in their relations of friendship. Of this fact we have had the demonstration in the extra- ordinary honors paid by Russia to our late great Admiral Farragut pot aloe. as the representative of the American Navy, but of the cause of the American Union and of its glorious triumphs, embracing the aboli- tion of slavery. We dare say, too, that had Mr. Seward, in bis late voyage autour du monde, taken St. Petersburg in his way, his Russian reception and welcome would have quite eclipsed the Oriental hospitalities ac- corded him by the Khedive of Egypt and the Sultan of Turkey. Here, then, in all these things, we have the explanation of the entente cordiale established between Russia and the United States, and of the common desire on the part of our govern- ment and our people to extend to Russia, through the son of the Czar, a generous wel- come. The appointed destiny of Russia covers the vast northern section of two con~- tinents, Europe and Asia. Over this exten- sive field tor settlement and development she will have ‘‘scope and verze enough” for all her energies for a century to come. The manifest destiny of the United States is the Continent of North America and the islands thereof; but we can bide our time. There is no conflict, nor can there be any conflict, between Russia and the United States in tbe destiny or designs of either. In their separate spheres of action they do not clash, but they assist each other, and the interests of both, in reference to all the world, are embodied in the peace policy of the Treaty cf Washington and in General Grant’s motto, ‘Let us have peace.” All this may do very well, as far as it goes; but the main question in reference to our dis- tinguished guest is, what do our American ladies say of him and his visit here, and “what are they going to do about it?” They say that he is a handsome young bachelor and a Prince, and they will catch him if they can. Is not the American type of blonde or bru- nette regarded throughout Europe as the highest type of female loveliness in the world? Can any statistician enumerate the counts, barons, lords, &c., captured abroad and at home by American women? Could a hand- somer woman be produced in Europe than the daughter of a Treasury clerk at Washington who became the wife of the distinguished Russian Minister, Bodisco? As a beautiful widow, did not this same lady next become the wife ofa tall and handsome British officer of the Army of India, and leave the White House on his arm with the blessing of President Buchanan? Who, then, can limit the aspirations and triumphs of our American women among the nobility and the princes of the five great Powers? And may not the Czar have given this young Prince and the nobles of his company his gracious per- mission to strengthen the happy accord be- tween Russia and the United States by Amer- ican alliances in their own right? Who knows? We only know that a hearty welcome awaits the Prince wherever he may choose to go in this country, and that the ladies are “dying to see him.” The Prince of Wales, when he was our British lion, though a bache- lor, was not his own man, you know; and Prince Arthur, on his visit, was watched like a hawk by his guardians; but the Prince Alexis has been tanght to havea will of his own, and hence these ‘great expectations.” Vive la République! Long live the Prince! Gambetta’s Speech on the French Re- public. M. Gambetta delivered his promised speech on the subject of democratic self-government in France at St. Quentin last Friday night. He was moderate in his expression, and moved the public mind healthfully by his words. The brief summary of the oration which reached us by cable yesterday shows that he is confident of the vitality of the French republic, although the working of the 8ystem needs, as he acknowledges, reform. French republicanism requires pruning and an exact shaping by the popular voice accord- ing to the wisdom of the governing classes, So thinks M. Gambetta. The French people should set themselves to the work of complet- ing their democratic charter, and, moving in this direction, ‘they should see that the duty is not deferred too long by their representatives in the National Assembly. So Gambetta ad- vises. M. Gambetta is evidently impressed with the wholesome truth of the maxim which says :—‘‘The work which should to-day be wrought defer not till to-morrow,” as also of that of its corollary, which exhorts:—‘‘The hope which can within be sought scorn from without to borrow.” Citizen influence should be more active and practical in public affairs, and the people of France should make them- selves ‘‘felt in the government of the country.” A “national republican party” should be formed. Gambetta set forth his plan for the organization of the new body—a plan which, as we are told by telegram, is ‘‘based in many respects on the American system.” Another and still more marked effect of the revolution which has been produced in the political mind of Europe by the electoral results which have just come from the exercise of the ballot in America. M. Roman CaTHOLIo Mission FROM ENGLAND to Amgxica.—The members of a Catholic clerical mission sailed from England for America yesterday.e Itis said that the clergy- men constitute the first missionary body which has ever left the shores of Britain proper for this country. The priests come to labor among the colored freedmen of the republic, His Grace Archbishap Manning of West- minster explained the intention of the Church in commissioning them, after a mass of bene- diction had been celebrated. Ie said that as England had imposed negro slavery in America it was fitting “that Englishmen should be the first to move for the amelioration of the condition of the new!y emancipated race.” A very praiseworthy, Christian sentiment, and one which may herald a very useful missichary work, 4 Senator Cart Sonurz was booked at one of our city botels on Friday last. He is the great political missionary, laboring for the organization of a fasion party for the defeat of General Grant next year. He came here, no doubt, upon that mission, and he has evi- dently been doing something here, too; for in Saturday's issue of a very self-important democratic organ we have the recommenda- tion of the fusion of the democrats, as the pas- sive party, with the anti-Grant republicans on the Carl Schurz platform. Very good. There is such @ movement afoot, and perhaps it may t York—Shall We Have Through the City ¢ There are but a very few of the citizens of New York who thoronghly comprehend the great future that is in store for the metropo- lis of the United States. Our people gener- ally are so busily engaged in the affairs of the present moment and so accustomed to con- centrate their whole attention on the enter- prises and speculations of to-day, that they do not allow themselves time to look into the distance and reflect upon the wonderful growth and development that assuredly await this city. Yet it is only necessary to recall to mind the progress that has been made in Rapid Transit the last twenty years to appreciate what the next quarter of a cen- tury must bring forth. Hitherto the increase of the city has been comparatively slow, for the reason that all those great im- provements that so materially aid the growth ofa metropolis have been wanting. Our means of transit have been insufficient; our miles of docks have been neglected; our streets have been contracted and badly kept, and we have had to struggle against all those hardships and inconveniences common to any young and rapidly growing city, but which are aggravated in the case of New York from the peculiar shape of the island. We are only just beginning to shake off our lethargy and to understand what posterity requires of us, Our railroad connection with the Pacific makes us the centre and connecting link of the world in commerce and news. We now find the removal of the obstructions atfHell Gate a necessity, in order not only that we may shorten the distance between New York and Europe, but that we may open up to the commerce of the world the magnificent dockage on our East side. With the swelling of our population comes the absolute need of rapid transit through the island and suburbs, and we discover that we can no longer delay the construction of some sort of a railway on which steam may be used. In fact, the people have awakened from their Rip Van Winkle sleep, and are resolved to catch up with the rest of the world, and not to suffer New York to remain any longer behind London, Paris and other great cities in the improvements that modern ingenuity has invented for the advantage of large communi- ties. To be sure, a few stupid people con- tinue to cry out against expenditure and tax- ation, and are anxious to adhere to that short- sighted policy which, in striving to save a cent, loses hundreds of dollars; but the citi- zens generally are alive to the wisdom and advantage of a liberal development of our magnificent resources, and are willing to pay freely for improvements that must contribute a hundred-fold to their own enjoyment and profit. They do not object to be taxed when their money is honestly expended in the interest of the city. They do object to being robbed, ' and their recent uprising at the polls is a proof of their determination to put a stop to official peculation. They are ready at any moment to give just as emphatic a verdict in favor of @ broad, liberal policy of internal improve- ment, by which New York may be more speedily made what she is assuredly destined eventually to become—the greatest commer- cial metropolis of the world, There is no public enterprise in which the bulk of the people have se deep an interest as in that which contemplates a railway from end to end of the island, with cars propelled by steam. This is their great need. At present our laboring classes and all persons of moderate means who are compelled to earn their bread by the work are driven to the necessity of either living in close, unhealthy neighborhoods, in tenement houses or the poorest kind of dwellings, or of add- ing to their daily toil the wearying task of travelling two or three hours ina horse car. Their comfort, their health and their morals would be advantaged if they could get beyond the reach of the impurities of a crowded city, and secure clean, wholesome and respectable homes. Steam communication would bring Harlem and Kingsbridge closer to the City Hall than Thirtieth street is to-day, The immense extent of territory that would be opened up to the middle and poorer classes for dwellings would cheapen rents, and families would secure better accommodations at lower prices than they are paying to-day. It would be impossible to enumerate within the space of a newspaper article the benefits that would be conferred upon the people at large, and the increase that would take place in the value of property all over the upper part of the island, by the construction of such a railroad along the east and west sides of the city. The act that was. passed by the Jast State Legisla- ture to incorporate the New York Railroad Company contemplates this desirable improve- ment, and there is no good reason why the work should not be at once commenced. The recent municipal troubles pushed the enter- prise aside for the moment, and the presence of some of the public officers who were impli- cated in the city frauds on the Board of Direction seemed to cast discredit upon the whole concern. But the charter is a good one, carefully guarded, efficient for the ac- complishment of the work and advan- tageous to the people. Upon the Board and among the corporators are to be found some of our most trustworthy citizens. A company in which are gathered such men as A. T, Stewart, August Belmont, James F. D. Lanier, Franklin Osgood, William Butler Duncan, Charles L. Tiffany, John Jacob Astor, Levi P. Morton, Jobn Taylor John- ston and Joseph Seligman, all of whom are directors, cannot be undeserving of public confidence, These citizens are shrewd busi- ness men, as well as the possessors of large wealth, and their integrity is unquestioned. They would not suffer their names to be used for an unworthy purpose, nor would they take position on a board of this character without intending to guide and control its action, They have already prepared for a reorganization of their body by which all objectionable members will be retired and their places filled with citizens of the stamp of those we have designated. It is to be hoped that the moment they have accomplished this necessary reform they will proceed with the work before them with earnestness and vigor. The people want the road and are prepared to speedy construction. Let the directors show a determination to push it through to comple- tion, and all the money they may require, in- cluding the city subscription, will be placed readily at their disposal, An effort is being made by certain politicians and adventurers to secure from the next Legis- lature a repeal of the charter passed last year. It proceeds from a desire to get hold vf the grant themselves for the sake of the profit the work may bring. It is a dishonest attempt made by men who are more anxious to secure the spoils than to promote the public good. The charter seems as fair @ one as could be drawn, The fare to be col- lected is limited by its terms to fifteen cents from Chambers street to the Harlem bridge and twenty cents from Cham- bers street to Kingsbridge. The company is required to run Special cars at six and eight o'clock in the morning and the same hours in the evening, at a uniform fare of five cents for all distances between the termini. The road is to be completed in one year to Forty-second street’and in five years to Harlem River. All Proper safeguards are thrown about the sub- scriptions and expenditures, and the five millions to be subscribed by the city is not to be paid until the people have individually taken one million of the stock and paid up at least ten per cent on that amount. It is plain, therefore, that the attempt to interrupt the work does not proceed from any zeal for the public good, but is simply a “ob” to secure what is believed to be a very good thing, through the power of the newly elected Legislature. We believe there will be enough real reformers and honest men in Albany this winter to dis- countenance all such corrupt and selfish schemes. Let the Board’ of Directors at once reorganize, and with such men as Cornelius Vanderbilt, Marshall O. Roberts, Isaac Sher- man, George Law and others added to their bumber, proceed vizorously with their work, heedless of the politicians and resolved to secure the great boon of a viaduct railroad to the people of New York in ‘the shortest possi- ble space of time. The Catholic Bishops and the Question in Ireland. Within the past few weeks the question of education in Ireland has attracted a good deal of attention in the newspapers of that country, owing ina great measure to the course pur- sued by a number of the Catholic bishops on the subject. Prominent among the prelates stands Cardinal Cullen, who is fetermined to make himself felt throughout the island and to compel a recognition of his influence in the British Parliament. Now that the College of Maynooth draws no annual sustenance from the British exchequer and that the establish- ment must prove self-sustaining or, in course of time, pass out of existence, the move- ment inaugurated by Cardinal Cullen at- tracts a degree of attention it would not otherwise possess. The crusade in- agurated has for its aim the attainment of an object which, if successful, will compel numerous alterations in the present national school system. In a set of resolutions the bishops give their views and explain their programme. They declare that ‘Catholic education is indispensable for the preserya- tion of the faith and morals of the Catholic people; they condemn mixed education as dangerous, and they argue that recent events, especially the acts of secret societies of revo- lutionary organizations, have strengthened them in that conviction; they demand, as a right, that the subject of edu- cational equality shall be legislated on, and they repudiate the present system of education as repugnant to the religious con- victions of their flocks, The model schools, the Queen's. colleges, Trinity college and all similar institutions are vehemently de- nounced, and Cardinal Cullen is called on to take immediate steps towards the establish- ment of a central school for the training of Catholic teachers. The bishops do not stop here, They go still further, and announce their determination to support only such can- didates for Parliament as favor the pro- gramme they have laid down. The people, too, are called on to hold meetings in their several parishes, under the direction of the clergy, to sign petitions against any system of education contrary to that favored by the hierarchy. The Irish educational campaign may then be considered fairly opened, and inaugurated with a determination on the part of certain bishops to fight with considerable warmth, The subject will be brought up at the ap- proaching session of Parliament, and will pro- voke much discussion, On general princi- ples we believe the present movement is inju- dicious for the very reason that the national school system of Ireland as it stands at pres- ent is noted by unprejudiced persons both at home and abroad for its many excellent char- acteristics. The cry raised against godless education has but a slender foundation to sus- tain itself, and when a number of the Catholic prelates declare that they will use their influ- ence in securing the defeat of any candidate for Parliament who will not accept their plat- form for a thorough and complete reformation of the present educational system, they an- nounce a policy the wisdom of which cannot be concurred in by thoughtful and unprejud iced Catholics. School Go Angap, Mr. Szoretary.—The Secre- tary of the Navy has issued another manifesto to the cadets at the Annapolis Academy on hazing. He orders the dropping from the rolls of six cadets who have insisted on the amusement of hazing and continued to prac- tice it, in disregard of instructions, and he ad- ministers lighter penalties to other guilty par- ties, according to their deserts; and he says, in conclusion, ‘Let it be distinctly under- stood that the Academy will be purified of this disgraceful practice’ and the defiant spirit which now invokes its action, by the dismis- sal, if necessary, of every cadet, to the very last, who refuses the fullest obedience to the regulations on this subject.” Perfectly right, Mr. Robeson. The cadet who is an incurable blackguard and ruffian is unfit for the public service, and it is your duty to turn him out, Tux Tromporne Trrat.—On another page of this morning's Hzratp we print a full résumé of the great Tichborve trial, which was recommenced on the 7th inatant in come to sgmething, Lot ua watch and wai | gubsexiba, ta jte etogk with liberality aa | Pandan, Review of the Religions Presie Were one to judge from the captions of the editorials in the leading religious papers pub- lished in this city this week there would be conclusive evidence that our religious contem- Poraries are taking a more lively interest in the progress of politics than in the progress of religion, For example, the Observer (brimstone ree publican) gives a leading editorial article on the ‘Power and Duty of the Secular and Reli- gious Press,” in which an “indulgence” is granted, one that might have been supposed to emanate from the Pope of Rome, to the effect that ‘‘the great license granted to the press isnot at unmitigated evil.” The 05- server goes on to say :— Some prominent and most useful papers are swift and persistent in the detection and’ expocurs of wrongdoing by men of the political party whose injury. oer wish to effect, while they pass in silence or with faint rebuke, if they do not openly defend, similar practices of their own party men. Nor is this the in and shame of newspaper people only. ‘The vice 1s as widespread as the parties themselves. Good Christians, able aod godiv miuisters of the Gospel, are infected with the same prejudice and biindness—a moral inaplilty to see the beams in their own eyes, so hideous and huge, to their vis- jon, appear the defects in others, “Good ministers, able and godly ministers of the Gospel” of the Presbyterian stamp should take warning from the above, else they may be unfortunately classified in the cate- gory of those who are called the ‘German silver” Presbyterian oracles of the day. The Hvangelisti—not of the ‘‘German silver” style of Presbyterianism, but more of the “true blue” order—gives the public an editorial on the ‘Uprising of the People,” the text being the result of the election week before last. These are the deductions of tho Evangelist :— For some time past the impression had been gain- ing that our city government was managed wholly by corrupt men for their own selfish mterests, and that fraud ran riot in all our public afairs, The press did its duty nobly in exposing these abommna- Vions. ‘The vague, general charge of fraud was for- Uflea by evidence, by arrays of facts and figures that could not be denied, till at last the conviction was burnt into every honest heart and the people were hot with rage and indignation, When the puuiic mind 18 in this mou) politicians can do nothing. bat are driven before the blast like chaff before the It may be all very well for our worthy religious confrire to say that these municipal malefactors are ‘driven before the wind ;” but why are they not driven into the State Prison? The Hvangelist continues :— And yet we must not forget that in this fight against corruption nobody stood in the ranks more manfully than Samuel J, Tilden and Charles O’conor, and huaodreds like them. It would only belittle the great result to interpret itasa mere party triumph. It is something infinitely higher and better, itis a victory of the people over those who, entrusted with power and responsibility, have deceived and plundered them, The fact of its not being ‘‘a mere party triumph” may be determined after the people witness the action of the incoming Legislature. Albany isa kind of ‘Rock of Ages,” upo2 which many a party bark has split. The Evangelist furthermore says :— And this result gives us faith, not only in the people, but in our institutions, as furnisning a safe and peaceful remedy for all abuses that may spring up under them. We confess we had begun to lose our confidence, and to teei that in this city wemocratic institutions were a fulare. In any etfort for reform we had enormous odds against us. Universal suffrage maste the votes of tens of thou- sands of ignorant Irishmen just landed on our shores equal to those of a8 many intelligent Ameri- cans. With this mass of ignorance contend against, and witn all the low elements of the city organized under the lead of cunning and unscrupu- lous men, the better part of the community had but @ small chance, form seemed hopeless. So general was this feeling that many of our best men despaired of a peaceful remedy, and began to talk of desperate measures—of organizing a vigilance committee, like that of San Francisco—to adminis- ter justice on the heais of this organized-ruilanism. A “vigilance committee” headed by the genial followers of the Hvangelist would have been a terrible organization, no doubt. But when any religious sect, no matter who they are or where they come from, whether hea- then, pagan, Catholic or Protestant, begin to talk of ‘vigilance committees” they only ex- asperate the public mind, and the result is the contrary from what its originators propose to accomplish. The Independent gives us a chapter upon the ‘‘Waterloo Defeat of Tammany Rascality,” apostrophizing as follows:— , Thank God that this oligarchy of politicians and knaves has at last been crushed! ‘The election of last week gave to the democratic party in the city and State of New York, with its Tammany leaders, @ deserved Waterloo defeat. Tne people rose im their might and hurled the power of the popular ‘will azainst the party that nad been politicaliy al- hed with the New York ring of thieves, and made no pretence of disavowing the alliance unt) it saw the storm gathering and the day of judgment near a . This sudden and overwhelming revolution of public feeling, continues the Independent, has a meaning which politicians and political parties would do well to remember. Cor- ruption and rastality, however successful for a time, have their appointed bounds, even under the most despotic governments, and certainly so under those officered and regu- lated by the popular will. Says the Independent, finally :— It now only remains to bring the Tammany Tascais and their allies to penal justice, and them this chapter in human history will be fally written. The Golden Age leads off with the “Rout of the Ring,” and goes on to say :— Our only fear is that the people will lose their fray tn and get tired before their work 1s done. hey have taken a step which requires to be followed up by a‘march, &@ campaigu, @ crusade, We have be- gun a war not only ge the Tammany Ring, but alt corruption and fraud, and all Kings of every sort. ‘This 1s the significance of the election of last week. It was a blow struck at all peculation and misuse of governmental patronage and lobby legislation; the blow aimed at the head of Tweed was also meaat for Murphy, and all other frauduient officials whose passiun is peculation and whose iniluence 1s iaint, The Golden Age evidently desires to sce a Charles O'Conor in Washington, The New York Tablet, Catholic organ, gives anarticle on the ‘‘Month of the Dead,” and, strange to say, has not a word in that connec- tion about the death of Tammany. It has, however, some sage advice to give to Irish immigrants to these shores. It wants Father O'Hanlon to tell them— ‘rhat, coming to this new country, they must work their way up by sobriety, good conduct, fidelity to every daty, and close adherence to thase religious principles that will make them, as they nave made millions of their countrymen in America, | ptos- perous and independent, good, law-abiding citi zens, to the country of their adoption and her free institutions, aud true to the old faith to which thetr fathers clung through the darkest and bloodiest. persecutions. This is good, sound, solemn advice—advice: which should be appreciated by those who are now coming to this country from op- pressed Ireland to enjoy the blessings of liberty in America. We trust the time will goon arrive when tosay an Irish immigrant or adopted citizen is a drunkard and a ruffian, a tool of unscrupulous politicians, and a being unworthy of participation in the success of a prosperous and happy and industrious com~ munity shall be regarded as an outrage and ‘an insult to a large class of our fellow citizens. The Christian Union (Henry Ward Beecher) ' discourses of the ‘Victory and Its Meaning,” in which it declares ‘ihe honeat men have won @ sweeping victory, even on Manhattan Island! So they will,” it adds, ‘if they will only gombing,, And if (hair combination now